A look at 'Education at a Glance'
(AP) -- Highlights of "Education at a Glance," the annual report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development:
-- The United States spends more in public and private money on all levels of education -- about $10,240 per student in 2000 -- than any other country.
-- The United States ranks first among the 30 member countries in the proportion of people age 55-64 and age 45-54 who have completed high school. The nation, however, ranks sixth in this among people age 35-44 and ninth among people age 25-34.
-- The United States has the highest level of student access to computers.
-- A person age 30-44 in the United States without a high school degree gains, on average, 69 percent of the earnings of a high school graduate.
-- In the United States and across all member countries, an average of 24 percent of 15-year-olds say students do not listen to what the teacher tells them.
-- The United States hosts the most foreign students, 28 percent of the total enrolled.
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